Art Quote by Sol LeWitt

Photography was inspired by painting, cinema by theatre and photography, I don't believe that any new art form was ever created from scratch.

— David Cage

Conceptual art became the liberating idea that gave the art of the next 40 years its real impetus.

— Sol LeWitt

I assumed from the outset that photography was already art, and that I and other people working in photography were artists. I understand now…

— Lewis Baltz

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

— Auguste Rodin

Photography brought a lot to painting because it forced artists to think about what painting could do that photography couldn't.

— John Lanchester

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

— Cynthia Rowley

I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this…

— Paul Outerbridge

“Photography theory is most often situated between art history, film theory, and communication studies”

— David Bate

I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.

— John Baldessari

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that…

— Sandy Skoglund

Conceptual art is only good if the idea is good.

— Sol LeWitt

It was only with the emergence of the Conceptualist approaches of the late 1960s that the opposition between artists using photography and photographers became…

— Jean-Francois Chevrier